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I’ve been waiting for inspiration to get blogging this Holiday Season. Working on my international version of “The LUCKc Concept” of course consuming most of my time, I miss blogging. When I took off for a period visiting friends in San Francisco my airline opened up for a second luggage – that’s where all my research material went. Thirty pounds made it over the Atlantic. An most of it is recycled here by now.

In the Pile of papers, some articles and facts immediately caught my eye. This on titled “Next Frontiers for Lean” – published by McKinsey Company, written by Ewan Duncan and Ron Ritter. Read it! It includes sooo much I use to mention when on Lean assignments.
After making a smooth presentation of Lean in its first 50 years, they start exploring what frontiers are in the making for Lean. I agreed with so much in their notes I decided to take down these reasons in a list, so here it is.

A few reasons why Lean as a philosophy and methodology will gain in new areas:

1. More powerful sources of data are available today – more can be performed – and measured by the staff in the flow.

5. Leading-edge companies are pushing leadership and strategy borders further – by this setting new standards

6. Introducing new use of energy – more can be acquired by less work

7. Being part of the lean community means acquring new skills daily – actors rethinking ”possible”

8. The working structure is bringing customer input directly to the supplier – an agreed transparent channel welcoming customer feedback

9. Adding the PULL philosophy where customers set the pace (”takt”) that things need to be created, instead of back-officedriven wishful thinking and storing values in stocks

10. New supporting technologies enter continuously, but is mostly unknown in general today

11. New relations to customers – as we work in new ways, so is our language with our customers. And our relations!

So, a lot of excellent reasons. And as an old Lean Guy I can see in these eleven areas how much more can be accomplished in a very both efficient and humane way. However, there ARE pitfalls.

Some. Not all – leaders and managers are not used to the pretty radical shift of power when it comes to leadership and decision-making.

The article mentions a number of areas where Lean makes its way. I am active in some of these; Hospitals, restaurants, retail banking, airlines and more. Who would disagree having a smarter way of loading/unloading a plane? Hotels are great – since they are in most cases super-transparent and the flow is very easy to identify: the guest. And one of the most important ingredients of Lean becomes obvious: “One Piece Flow”. Every person has the right to be respected. As is in hospitals, care-taking and schools!

My original plan was to add a part here on how The LUCKc Concept adds to all this – but this current (McKinsey, not mine) article is soo good it deserves to stand for itself! But instead of that – here’s an example what you can accomplish with your very own smartphone – a slowmotion-analysis of movements. Like this kite surfer in the Bay Area:

It’s time to get back to work. If not like full speed – at least delivering a few proposals, plans and material. Except for the ordinary – who are you planning to approach this year? What openings are possible – and what are YOU aware of that others don’t? Do YOU see the opening for your business? It may just be WIDE open! Here’s a recent post on that “Portal”:

When planning Sales, it’s extremely easy to forget about past business. That impressive list of past customers. Why don’t you call them? Pay them a visit? Share one of those great business books you just KNOW they’ll love!

I really should had done this long ago: A post to host all videos and streams in one spot. As the release of the English version of The LUCK Concept Book approaches, the amount of English videos will indeed increase. So far, this is what I have (feel free to inbox me if you’ve got more!)

2012: Enterprise 2.0 in Santa Clara, California, November 2012

I attended a number of great conferences on The Enterprise 2.0 Theme, in Boston in June and Santa Clara in November respectively. This time, in November ’12 I was interviewed as I signalled a very strong belief in the power of video. Power as a driver, as a clarifier – and quite a lot a democratic tool as it holds the ability to share to so many! The interview with me on the subject of Video and the U Perspective of The LUCK Concept. (U is for Unifying Communications)

This year I was invited to do a workshop at the World Class Mobile and Social-enabled Enterprise. To make my standpoint totally clear, inventing a brand is a good idea. It now is MiMo – for Mobile In – Mobile Out; All communication in six years from now should be possible by means of mobiles only.

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Watching this video you may share the idea of a lot of people right now: “Taxis are gone in a few years”. I disagree – but what I’m pretty sure of is you are about to see a number of corporations die. Not the business. Why?

Because most corporations will not act on the signals until it’s too late. The problem may just pass. We hope. Ahhhhg. It didn’t…

But SOME will. That’s adaption to the new circumstances, as described by Darwin.

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Yes, those of you who know me well know I am a strong believer in “try first, be prepared to fail but try to figure it out. The learn”. Something in the way Math is often taught has annoyed me ever since I understood what learning really was about. Now finally it feels like The LUCK Concept goes Math!

And NOW brain researchers started challenging the AR – Algorithmic Reasoning. This is the type where the challenge is “Steve has five apples – he gives Ann two. How many are left?” Tool: “Put five sticks on a plate. Remove two”. /<more…>

The new model is called CMR and you’ll see how much LUCKc there’s in it: CMR is short for Creative Mathematically Founded Reasoning. In CMR no method is delivered with the exercise. And results are very inspiring. The method is a lot like the “vända på kuttingen” we do in Swedish – or in my English “Kutting Edge” (yes, with a K). It means “expect the student/colleague to know. Start there – and build with dialog”.

Although findings may vary I think this opened MY mind a lot. That expected way to do things is probably helping in some situations, but more and more results indicate that some friction, and effort – the TRY (make use of numerous brain functionality) and find out HOW (feeling smart as in gamification, being accepted and belonging) and often WHY (what can this be used for in real life?). As our brain is a huge glucose consumer we WILL lose track if not interested. Pure evolution.

Yesterday I attended a conference I really looked forward to for a long time. It was all the result of the machines – the brain scanners that boosted the LUCK Concept. I will return to this more than once 😉

As we’re getting closer to the release of the English version of “The LUCK Concept” so does the number of new friends made. I will elaborate here over the next coming months on the subject. Today:

K for Kognition.

Yes, of course I’m aware that it is spelled Cognition. But the K remains to indicate the heavy influence of the internet on our brain. Our “internetified brain” lives in a completely new era. And in parallel with the development of the internet – do has the brain scanners! Yesterday May 16, I attended a conference on the assumption that neurology has something to add to education.

and we reflected on the relatively short time that we’ve been able to study all kinds of living creatures with no-loss and no-damage to the studied object. Without this development at least my work on the LUCKc Concept would have been a lot less interesting.

Here’s the program of the conference:

Thank you Torkel Klingberg for the initiative – thank you all sponsors – including our Crownprincess Victoria

This will be a shortie. On meetings. As soon as I use the word “meetings” my brain fills in “…bloody meetings”. I’ll return to that brilliant video by John Cleese at another occasion. We’ve all been in boring meetings. But there’s nothing saying you need to start it boringly! Sometimes we run out of great ways of opening meetings. I spend two days at the Netnod Meeting and they today provided one new to me. So, here’s a post on How to open meetings.

“Stand up if you…” (large groups)

Very useful for work on large groups, providing the proper end of the sentence may start quite a few laughs and insights. “…are not on Facebook”. This one also triggers our brain in many different ways: visionary, fun, fantasies, body movement, social interaction and more.

Log in procedure “My last – my first” (smaller groups)

This is great for smaller groups. A real knocker for very “in your head” people and very engaged and busy staff. The trick is everyone around the table to fill in on these two sentences:

1. “Last on my mind before entering this meeting was…..[fill in]”

2. “What struck me at first when I entered this meeting was…..[fill in]”

Change location – personally

Without any other communication – pick another place than the one you normally consider to be “your place”. Try this at home as well. Reactions are normally immediate and all brains will be active